Looking for a snack that’s high in protein, fiber and mixes up your regular snacks a bit? I have a gluten-free suggestion.
New research just released suggests added attention to bones in newly diagnosed celiac children.
Just in: Chain of restaurants that makes gluten-free pizzas was hit by burglars who stole $8k in fundraising money. Read on…
Cooking, art — they are all good skills to know and learn about in school. That is until your celiac child finds him or herself elbow deep in whole wheat flour with their friends throwing flour at each other nearby. Or the paper mache paste starts flying everywhere. So what can a parent do to keep the gluten-free diet in check while maintaining our child’s participation in class?
Time to cut corners. A job loss in my family means a second look at the budget — including groceries and gluten-free foods. How can we make the most of the almighty dollar? We explore it in this post.
Will decisions in the new Obama administration have an impact on celiac disease and gluten-free foods? This post explores that possibility.
Are you secretly worried about a guest cross-contaminating your gluten-free food during your dinner party? After a few experiences, here’s what I have come up with and a few other suggestions to quickly educate and hopefully ensure a gluten-free friendly dinner.
What’s the difference between clean and “celiac clean”, well if you have a kitchen with both gluten-free and gluten-containing foods this is a post you’ll want to read.
Every day, Patricia Johnsen works to balance Type 1 Diabetes and –most recently — celiac disease with the challenge of training for the Ironman Triathlon. From her discovery of celiac to managing the two during major competition see how she’s been able to balance a healthy life.
I remember when Emma was first diagnosed with celiac disease back in 2000, I was happy we found out what was making our daughter so very sick, and she was on the mend. But there is another significant part of me that felt grief. And to this day, for a brief time, I will be sad for her and yes, for me. Why do we grieve? We grieve because the diagnosis the family has “lost” something. In Danna Korn’s book Kids with Celiac Disease she says after a child’s initial diagnosis, people tend “…to progress through a series of emotions in response to bad news or loss. If you think about it, having your child diagnosed with celiac disease is a loss of a kind. Perhaps it is the loss of the image you may have had for your child’s future.” Korn recommends you “recognize your grief and allow yourself a grieving period….however it is also important not to dwell on it.” And as in my case Korn says, “Grief is one of the emotions that may rear its ugly head every couple of years and must be addressed again each time.” And it doesn’t just affect parents of celiac […]
